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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-12-31, Page 8Poge $ r Times-Advocate, Pecemler 31, 1975 c look at ►ports, Fast, Exciting 11/011 EXETER ARENA Friday, Jan. 2 — 8:00 p.m. Lucan Irish VS Exeter Hawks 120 Sanders St. W,, Exeter 235-0694 Lucan Cyclones intermediate "C" vs Grosse Point Tuesday, Jan, 6 8:30 p.m. LUCAN ARENA MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY with a gift from SCOTT'S NU. • Down Filled Jackets & Vests • Lee Denimt, tili.?ipasmomoi om • Western boots • Tack Supplies & Horse Health Items • •and, .. • • • •• Use Your Chorgex SCOTT'S LEATHER SHOP • Shoot-A-Rama • $50 Door Prize drawn last home game poch month Adults $1,25 Students /5d Public School 25d Pre-Schoolers-Pee Minor teams lose two of three games the only goal of ale period. Mark Crawford gave Goderich a 2.0 lead with his first of two goals in the game just before the two minute mark of the second. John Kernick put, Exeter back in the game briefly, when he seared an unassisted goal at 4:16. Daryl Madge put the game out of reach for Goderich, on an unassisted goal with only 9 seconds left in the sec3nd period. Dave Gallow and Crawford rounded out the scoring in the third period to give Goderich their four goal. margin. Goderich took three of the flour minor penalties called, but neither team could take ad- vantage of the power play situations. by Fred. Youngs It's Sunday night, and all across Canada the Waltons is pre-empted for another hockey game. Ralph, a die-hard hockey fan in Agincourt, and his somewhat glassy eyed wife Carol settle down in their tacky recreation room decorated in nouveau stale idea and switch on the slightly ahead of its time colour television to watch the New York Rangers take on the Central Red Army team. The Central Red Army team are from Russia. a coun- try that neither Carol or Ralph have seen and know little about. They know that it is cold, being at approximately the same latitudinal proximity as Canada; they know that there is another alphabet used for their language and they know that they differ in political ideologies although neither is ex- actly sure how. They also know that they have damn good hockey teams: maybe the best in the world. "Not as good as us, not when we are in top shape and are playing with a single cohesive team" pontificates Ralph to carol's already deaf ears. (Carol has been inundated with hockey lore and facts since she met Ralph 22 years ago, and, quite frankly, could carp less about the game.) "No, just wait and see" continues Ralph as he licks the last bit of chicken from his fingers, just like the ad says and proceeds to bite his nails down to the cuticles because they now taste like 11 different herbs and spices. The announcer, who could make the Hindenberg dis- aster sound boring, has finished his speech about the past• two series against the Ruskies and Howie Meeker, who could make Hamlet sound puerile, has his blood pressure return to normal as they switch upstairs to the gondola. Ralph's pulse rate increases dramatically as the national anthems and customary gift giving concludes, The puck is dropped, play starts and 21 seconds after the opening Phil Esposito feeds Steve Vickers and the Rangers are ahead 1- 0. Ralph woops and grabs for another piece of chicken, Carol snores her approval. If hockey games lasted 30 seconds, the Rangers would have won. Unfortunately hockey games last for one hour, and in the ensuing 19 minutes and 39 seconds, the New York Rangers were humiliated by a team that made them look like the rather untidy bunch of athletes that they are. As the game progressed towards the end, the Red Army team skated the Rangers into the ice. It was the first game of what is billed as Super Series 76, the next one to be called Extra Super Series, the following one to be called There Will Never Be a Better Series than This and the last one to be called Sorry Folks, Bet You Didn't Think We Could Do It, The Best Series Forever or Until The Next One Series. Hopefully we will be bored to tears as we race along trying to prove that we are better then those borscht breathed, vodka drinking Russians who only think they can play hockey, etc. etc. ad nauseum. What we have here is what everyone has wanted . . . supposedly. NHL teams playing Russians in the middle of our season, on our rinks, under NHL rules. Most people thought that the Rangers, even though they are a disgusting excuse for an ice hockey team, would womp the Reds, We now know different, There is no point in making conjecture on who will win vilit4-garile. The Sabers and Islanders should win against the''Wings, a much weaker club than the Red Army. And the other three opponents of the Red Army should take their games, that's the way a lot of others see it too. Montreal in particular had better take their game or the NHL should roll itself into a ball and die a slow death from terminal embarrassment. Montreal is the team in the Not just great for one or two years, not just having the best for one or two years, but running together a chain, a string of victories that is astounding. No other team, not even the Leafs, have as much tradition or are as rich in prestige. If the Canadiens, the penultimate team in the NHL, lose, it will be the only slap in the face to Canada. Honestly, if Philadelphia bombs and the Sabers choke and the Bruins flounder who cares? Who really cares? Yes, folks its true. If our teams, and we should use the term "our" with a grimace as they are no more our's than Grant's tomb, lose the rest of the world will not sneer at us. They will not say that Canada is like a Volkswagen com- pared to the Maseratti Russians, No one will stop trading with us; our economy will not become sicker (if that is at all possible,) and yes. Canadians will still be able to travel to other lands and hold their heads up. Amazing facts, but they are all true. Nobody else cares and really I wonder why we place so much emphasis on this. Consider this point. A new ambassador from the United States has just arrived in Ottawa. The old one left as they are want to do when a new one comes*. Just before he left, he made some rather strong comments the gist of which were: stop mucking around up here, We. meaning Washington, are rather upset at the fact that you are fooling around with a nationalistic oil policy. That you have a desire for economic sovereignty, in short, Gerry. Henry and the others in the US don't like the looks of things up here. What he said, in the proverbial nutshell is, don't do anything we don't want you to because we figure on using you to help us and this free thinking is no good, What was the reaction of the country? Generally we took it in a rather docile manner.. But if it comes down to our hockey teams being beaten that is another matter, 22 million people can get more upset about the travellings of a piece of galvanized rubber then the innuen- does made by another country about the way our govern- ment functions. That is a sad situation.4 Personally, I would like to see the end of these so-called super series. Forget the competition and rivalry, pack it all in and send them back home with Howie Meeker stamps and Brian McFarlane trading cards. They prove nothing, except one thing. The Russians are as good or better then Canada at Hockey, Nobody believes me when I say this. I fear for my life sometimes when I utter that one phrase. I think I'd be better off calling Hitler an okay guy than trying out that fact on a Canadian, but lets face facts. For years these athletes have trained and you can't tell me that because they pass the puck around like machines there is something wrong. Any team, if they did the exer- cises and workouts the RtisSians do would look like machines. They are unquestionably one of the finest groups of players assembled and they deserve a lot of eredit. There are only two or three NHL teams and surely no WHA teams. that come close or surpass the Russians, a fact that we should not be ashamed of. If Canada were as bullish on their sovereignty and the economy as they are on their hockey teams we would be a lot better off.Think about that next time Khatlarrlov splits the defence, It was a slow week for minor hockey, as only three teams competed over the holiday season. The other teams resume action in the new year. Exeter won one and lost two this past week. Atom . The Atom team took a stinging defeat in exhibition action this Past week as they got dumped 5-1 by Goderich in Goderich Saturday. Brad Armstrong opened the scoring for Goderich halfway through the first period. His was Lucan Minor Hockey action The Lucan Novice played in a tournament in Exeter on the weekend, The Lucan boys lost their first game to Parkhill 5-0. The second game they won 7-1 against Dorchester. The third game they lost to Belmont. . Then they had to play Milverton for the Consolation Trophy. After three periods of play the game was tied 1-1, So they went into a sudden death over time. With only 11 seconds gone in the over time Brent Bannerman scored to give Lucan Novice the Consolation Trophy. Lester Arts received a hat trick trophy on Saturday for his 3 goals scored, The Lucan Midgets are playing in the Silver Stick tournament at Watford. Their first game they defeated Alvinston 8-5, Ken Holland had a hat trick. Kyle Pederson scored a pair and singles by Dean Densmore, Le Roy Siddell and Rick Freeman. On Saturday they defeated Parkhill 3-2. The goal scorers were Tony Vanderhock, Calvin McCallum and Rick Freeman. They go into quarter finals on Tuesday. Hockey Juveniles played Delaware in Lucan 7-4 with Ken Holland scoring 2, Cecil Nickles, 2; Gord Moon, 1; Randy Kraut, 1; and Rick Freeman with 1. Support minor hockey Smile The doctor came home to find his basement flooding and called the 'new plumber in town. The latter arrived, found and fixed the trouble in five minutes and presented a bill on the spot for $100, "Why that's outrageous!" exclaimed the doctor. "It works out to over a thousand dollars an hour! I'm a doctor and I don't make that kind of money," "Yes, I know," deadpanned the plumber. "Neither did I when I was a brain surgeon." .amiammoinumommomm SORRY! We can repair it no matter how little (or how great) is the damage. A:)1( FOR A FREE ESTIMATE I Hunter-Duvar AND SON RANNOCH 129.8945 4,4•111011111011111111011111111111111.1111.1ir THE THRILL OF VICTORY — Three Waxers show their excitement after Jeff Pfaff, on the right, scored the winning goal in their game against Tilbury, An unidentified Waxer et the rear and Scott Lovie skate away from a fallen Tilbury goaltender and his teammates. photo by Youngs enters • Juvenile The Juvenile team won a penalty filled contest against Lambeth, defeating the visitors 3-2. Lambeth took only five of the twenty penalties called in the contest. Lambeth opened the scoring in the first with just over three minutes gone. Steve Knight came back to tie it for Exeter in the second before Lambeth again went ahead. D, Osgood tied the game and Wayne Clarke put it away for Exeter in the third. Pee Wee Jeff King led Dorchester to a 4- 2 pre-Christmas victory over the Pee Wee team from Exeter in a game that was played in Dor- chester December 23. Trevor Boyle opened the scoring for Exeter with an unassisted goal at 4:37 of the first period. The lead was short lived however, as King came back with a reply less than two minutes later. Ron Coolman put Exeter out ahead again when he took a pass from Mark Vandergunst to make it 2-1. Dorchester's Dave Parker tied the game again on a goal with less than 30 seconds to play in the period. It was the third frame that sank Exeter, as Dorchester came up with two goals that Exeter failed to reply to. Dave Paicment scored the eventual winner when he converted a pass from King into a goal and Tom Brady added the insurance with a little over two minutes left in the game. Exeter took three of the five penalties called in the game. The Exeter Waxers came as close as you can get in the Novice Hockey Tournament this past weekend, as they lost in the "C" category finals to Lambeth 3-2. The tournament was held at the arena this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Exeter easily rolled over their opponents in the three games leading to the finals, dumping Lambeth 4-0 stinging Tilbury 6-3 and Pt. Edward, 2-1 on Saturday, Kick Gilfillan earned the shutout for the Waxers in Friday's action against Lambeth. Captain George Pratt scored an unassisted goal at 1:32 of the first frame to give Exeter all the points that they needed to win the game. He was followed by Sean Whiteford at 8:03 for the in- surance marker. Whiteford converted passes from Brett Batten and Scott Lovie for his goal, The second period was scoreless until late in the period when Steve Gould found the mark behind Lambeth goaltender Greg Haugen at the 9:16 mark of the period, It was an unassisted goal. Lovie got the only goal of the third period at 3:06 of the final period, again unassisted. Lambeth took the only penalty of the game in the first period when Referee Brian Campbell tagged them with a "too many men on the ice" call. The Waxers were unable to capitalize on the power play opportunity, It didn't take Exeter gong to find the mark in Saturday's game against Tilbury as Brett Batten popped in the first goal after only 19 seconds had elapsed. Batten was assisted on the goal by Lovie and Whiteford Tilbury came back just 26 seconds later when John Nussey scored to tie the game. Batten put in his second of the game near the six minute mark on assists from Lovie, who had an excellent game getting two goals and three assists, and Pratt. Nussey scored his second and final goal of the game and sent the two teams into the second period with a tie game, two apiece. With just over a minute gone, Nussey fed Nick Farough in front of the Waxers net and Farough put it away to give Tilbury the lead. Then things fell apart for Tilbury, as Exeter stormed back with four unanswered goals, Steve Gould started the onslaught at 5:59 of the second, making' good on passes from Lovie and Pratt to tie the score. Jeff Pfaff put in the eventual game winner with 11 seconds left in the period when Batten found him near the Tilbury net, Pfaff made good on his shot and it was all but over for Tilbury, Lovie added the-insurance in the third period when he got his first of two goals in the period, and then added the sixth and final goal of the game with just over a minute left in the contest, Tilbury took two of the three penalties called in the game, but killed them both off. They were unable to score on the one power play opportunity afforded them by the Waxers. Exeter managed to eke out a close victory against Pt. Edward in a defensive battle that saw all the scoring come in the early minutes of the first and third periods. Steve Gould opened the scoring in the game with an unassisted goal at 2:11 of the first, It was scoreless until George Pratt scored early in the third from Gould and Lovie. Pt. Edward got on the scoreboard fess than a minute later when Damian Mills got their only marker, to round out the scoring at 2-1 in the Waxers' favor. The bubble burst for the Waxers the next day though, as they lost the championship round of their class in overtime to Lambeth. Jeff Mickle gave Lambeth the lead late in the first on an unassisted goal. Scott Lovie tied it up in the early goings of the second period when he found the mark on a pass from Whiteford at 1;30. Steve Gould put Exeter ahead at 5:18 of the second and the game stayed that way until the early stages of the third period when Mickle scored again and tied the game to send it into overtime. With just over five minutes gone in the sudden death period, it was Mickle again, who found the open spot in the net and finished off Exeter's hopes of taking the championship, In other action in the tour- nament, South London won the "B" final, swamping Goderich 5- 2 and Belmont won an overtime victory in the "D' final, 5-4 over Parkhill, Forestsnuck by Pt. Edward in the "C" consolation final 2-1, Listowel beat Elmira to take the "B" consolation final by . the „same score and Lucan gained a 2- 1 overtime victory over Milverton. Steer This Way Lucan took two of their four games in the tournament, in- eluding the final, They lost to Parkhill 5-0, thumped Dorchester 7-1 and lost to Belmont before they won the consolation prize. Brakes should be checked for equal pull on all four wheels. A bad pull is especially dangerous on ice or other slippery surfaces. It's economical to keep your gas tank as full as possible — gas evaporates faster, and moisture condenses, on the in- side of a near-empty tank. Do your wheels turn freely? Binding wheels are caused by tight or improperly lubricated wheel bearings and dragging brakes. It can cost you mileage. BY ' LARRY SNIDER 4t. What does your car say about you? Market research firm has found a correlation between how people see themselves and the types of cars they buy. Best time to trade in a car is early in the fourth year of ownership, according to a management consultant on business travel. Trading in? You'll get the best deal at Larry Spiders. Drive in today to see the good-looking, smooth-riding new models. 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